Depth Quotes - Page 4

• A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

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• Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Success, Judging, Height

  Kwame Nkrumah (1968). “Dark days in Ghana”, Lawrence & Wishart

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• The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sex, Men, Trying

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• The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Life, Education, Math

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 140, p. 194, 1992.

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• I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Years, Voice

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• What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Public Speaking, Propaganda

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• There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Long, Soulfulness, Long Time

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• Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Education, Literature, Philosopher

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• We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Our Society, Information, Speed

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that

  Cillian Murphy

  Stuff, Sake, Comedy

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• Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

  Rex Stout

  Ideas, Shallow, Scope

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• In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process

  Sidney Sheldon

  Character, Thinking, Hands

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• I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Hero, Character, Firefighter

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• I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Philosophy, Meat, Want

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• I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

  Roland Joffe

  Jobs, Tough, Reviewers

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• If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

  Roland Joffe

  People, Made, Wells

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• The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team.

  Gerard Arpey

  Team, Moving, Long

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• You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

  Alec Baldwin

  Change, Years, Age

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• You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts with great understanding and depth.

  Richard Russo

  Character, Understanding, Smiley

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• One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

  John Astin

  Able, Life Is, Universe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Men, Talent, Surprise

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

  Nicholas Lea

  Character, Ideas, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Goodbye, Lonely

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

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  It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

  Keanu Reeves

  Beautiful, Laughing, Joy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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